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Sunday, 20 April 2014

easter

more dye results, from left to right: cow parsley/sorrel dye wrapped 'round copper pipe: bright yellow; coin clamp from avocado/onion peel dye: pale pinks and spots of blue; another yellow strip: same as first one; washer-clamp-cloth from avocado/onion peel vat, again more shades of pink and grey with hollow circles.....

new lino cut, I am so happy with this square shaped print: the dog barking up the tree, the bird perched on the tree branch, the watchful hare waiting to see what might occur

first print on paper, second one on cotton; might need a little tweak here and there, do they need eyes I wonder

Ah....beautiful Saskia. I never thought about the eyes 'missing' until you queried it. What I did think was how well you had captured the essence, (or 'jis' when referring to a bird, and how one can recognise a bird species by their particular shape) of each creature.

Saskia, I love looking at the row of dyed cloths, especially 2nd cloth. I've gotten some pretty wild bright golds/yellows from yellow onion skins on cloth that had no mordant except for a brief time in a copper pot. Got cloth at an estate sale, not sure it is 100% cotton, plus has a thread design, soaked up color but that bright onion yellow is too much, dipped it in grayish purple dye soup, then in diluted walnut plus wrapped it around a rusty can and still that GOLD shouted at me so for the first time ever, I discarded the cloth by shredding it and tossed it into the wind for birds to use, shredding it muted the colors but somewhere there may be a nest with a bit of gold shining through !

And the lino cut: all things to love, tree, bird, hare and most of all dog who to me is Tungsten come to frolic in the spring days.,

Thank you Nancy, I love it too, mainly because of the dog!hi Jan, thank you to you too, I didn't make eyes after all, just made the hare lose a bit of weight, haMarti, yes it is Tungsten in his younger years, such a good loving dog; I do wish there were pics of your dyeing pots/results/adventures, it all sounds very interesting, I would love to see more of what you talk about here!

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why a blog

People kept asking me: what is it you paint? Instead of trying to describe my work I decided to start this blog; this is also why I started with posting the digital images I had of older paintings.

And I guess I also hoped the extra focus and discipline needed to maintain a blog, might give me new insight(s) into my work, my aspirations and possibly even my life.......if that's not too much to ask, thank you very much